Word: technicians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pont is the world's greatest chemical empire, the master technician of U.S. industry. It has 72 plants in 25 states, employs about 85,000 people, turns out 1,200 different types of products, and last year chalked up $1,297,000,000 in sales. Its wizardry in its Wilmington laboratories periodically conjures up entire new industries. Duco, the first quick-drying auto finish, revolutionized U.S. auto production. Cellophane changed the packaging habits of everybody from butchers, bakers and cigarette makers to orchid growers. Nylon changed the hosiery habits of U.S. women, is helping to revolutionize the textile industry...
...secrets as the proximity fuse-were handed over to the Kremlin. To help them decide, the jurors had the testimony of sallow, penitent Harry Gold, a Philadelphia biochemist now serving 30 years because he was a courier for the atomic spy ring, and David Greenglass, a former Los Alamos technician who testified not only to his own but also to his sister's and his wife's parts in the espionage operations...
...From a technician's point of view, Dr. Metcalf's revisions may be excellent, but scholars will find research easier if the changes are not made...
...force has good flyers, but most of its 500 planes are worn out. The navy-important in Free China's offshore situation -consists of 100 combat vessels, not more than a third of which are serviceable. Besides spare parts, the.navy's main need is for U.S. technicians: a whole radar complex will fail because one vacuum tube has blown; a U.S. technician could find and fix the trouble in ten minutes...
...request came from a 21-year-old electro-technician and a 23-year-old accountant in Haarlem, who pointed out that they had "read something about the journey to the moon" and asked for immediate reservations...